CRN Politics

By Barry Secrest

When it comes to former Directors of the CIA, a body known for extensive forays into counter-intelligence and domestic misdirections of the truth, most Americans already know to hold the various utterances of these former CIA leaders in a mode approaching something less than general contempt.

This is why when we heard former Director Michael Hayden, a 4-star desk-wielding political general & Trump-hater (of the first order) lay into the Trump administration over reports that Trump senior advisor Jared Kushner as being involved in talks concerning a secret back-channel to the Russian government, we couldn't wait to hear how Hayden would conduct his negative CIA spin.

Nor were we disappointed, in that Hayden set forth with a grandiose bit of play-acting,  sounding much like a scalded dog in a barrel when he acted as if secret back channels between US presidents and world leaders were a thing never heard of in the history of US-geopolitics.

"We're in a really dark place as a society"~ Michael Hayden

Hayden's treatise, at least to those in the know, probably had watchers either erupting into peals of outraged laughter or launching projectiles furiously towards the TV, when Hayden disingenuously sought to characterize what has become general knowledge of the Obama regime's extensive illegal eavesdropping on Trump's campaign (and the American people who disagreed) via various US security agencies including the NSA, the FBI, and even the DOJ.

Hayden, with thesaurus apparently at the ready, didn't "feel very good about the whole thing" describing Kushner's back-channel foray, on behalf of America, as "ignorance, chaos, hubris, suspicion, and contempt" just to name a few, as qualifiers. 

Jared Kushner didn't suggest Russian communications channel in meeting, source says

However, the truth is, of course, something a great deal more than former spy Hayden lets on.  

According to history, there appear to be more back channels than not, at work throughout all the many US administrations, and the ones we know about probably pale in comparison to the number of ones that we simply don't.

"That's how a lot of delicate diplomacy is done"

States Doyle McManus a Contact Reporter for the LA Times in defending Barack Obama for his clandestine back-channel with Iran, beginning in 2008,  that we only recently learned about.

Mcmanus goes on:

"It may sound cloak-and-dagger, but that's how a lot of delicate diplomacy is done. Back-channel talks opened the way to the U.S. relationship with China in 1972, the Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement in 1993 and other lesser breakthroughs."

 So, here, with only a few hours of research are the very many clandestine back-channels used by various US administrations, throughout recent history.

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